#Platycerium bifurcatum

[qk-yuan]

shield frond finally on its way on my bifurcatum yahoo

[honeygloom]

The staghorn fern, Platycerium bifurcatum, is a unique epiphytic plants that new studies indicate might live in eusocial colonies.

[9402plantscats]

湿度が高くてニッコニコ。

ところで商品名「ビカクシタ」としか書かれてなかった奥の上側に見えるビカクシダ、今ほどビカクシダに興味がなかった頃に近所のスーパーからお迎えしたものだが今なら何となく「たぶんビフルカツムだろうな」と思える。

[uzlolzu]

Some time ago, I designed a dryad for every platycerium/staghorn fern species I have or have had (my grande died, but the rest lives). They are sorted here in the following order:

p. ridleyi

p. bifurcatum

p. superbum (+ grande)

p. elephantotis

p. veitchii lemoinei

p. cabbage

p. madagascar alcicorne

p. quadridichotomum

p. stemaria

p. coronarium

My collection has grown with two p. madagascariense and a p. mt. kitshakood since I made these, so I suppose I’ll do two more at some point. The line art, ink layers, my design thoughts and some plant talk is publicly posted on my Patreon.

[lichenaday]

I thought it might be nice to share a bit about what PhD student life is like since before I started it, I really had no idea what to expect.

I have an office that I share with 3 other PhD students at my institute. It is in an old, historical building at the Munich Botanical Garden.

Let's take a tour around my desk:

First, my homemade Darwin crossstitch (pattern compliments of @shitpostsampler) to remind me that all scientists have bad days.

It sits behind my wonky dragon tree (Dracaena marginata) who I rescued from the trash outside my apartment. Who throws away a whole ass tree?

He's recovering beautifully, considering how fucky and sad he was when I pulled him from the bin.

Above my unnecessarily giant computer monitor I keep part of my expansive plant collection. Pink princess philodendron (Philodendron erubescens) w/handmade moss stick, my beloved jewel orchid (Macodes petola), zebra plant (Tradescantia zebrina) in owl pot (courtesy of my labmate, since I am the bird person) and poorly mounted staghorn fern (Platycerium bifurcatum).

Little baby jewel orchid! He flowered recently and I am so proud of him.

Then there's my Cladonia collection, and my bottle of Icelandic lichen (Cetraria islandica) booze.

On the top shelf is my Calathea musaica 'Network', and jar of discarded lab lichens. I will figure out a use for them eventually. For now they are just aesthetic.

Then there's my monstera Peru (Monstera karstenianum) in a pot I "salvaged" from a cemetery. Pretty sure it's cursed, but nothing I can do about that now. Also the baby succulents off my mystery flea market sedum. Behind my desk you can see my German sailing cookbook, Florentine bat notebook, Pikachu of encouragement, and turtle postcard. The turtle is one of many who live in the greenhouse that I visit when work gets stressful. Also a magnet of my favorite Minoan goddess--tits out, snakes in hands, cat on head.

This is desk ant. She appears to have no colony and just hangs out with me all day. I have tried to track her and find where she comes from but she just runs around in circles on my desk for hours so I have given up. Sometimes I give her a little bit of my tea to drink. She is the backbone of this working group.

Anyway, if you ever see a scientist's office that isn't cluttered and chaotic, they are doing it wrong.

[haveyougrownthisplant]

[wildergrimm]

🌻

one of the ways to identify Platycerium (staghorn fern) species is by taking crossections of the stipe! when i interned at a botanical garden, we got a donation from a patron of...20 or so? staghorns, and my supervisor handed me some books on ferns and told me to look through them so we could figure out what kind of platycerium they were! you can look at the ways the leaves split and the shape of the shield fronds, and the final thing we did was get razor blades to cut crossections of the stipe (basically the stem) of the antler fronds (the ones that stick out and droop down). there will be dark spots in the cross section, and the arrangement of those spots can help determine species. most of the ones we received were P. bifurcatum, and others...i think they were hybrids of P. willinckii and P. veitchii? not very rare at all, but beautiful nonetheless

[leedsomics]

Diel dynamics of multi-omics in elkhorn fern provides new insights into weak CAM photosynthesis

Crassulacean acid metabolism (CAM) has high water-use efficiency (WUE), which is widely recognized to have evolved from C(3) photosynthesis. Different plant lineages have convergently evolved CAM, but the molecular mechanism underlying the C(3)-to-CAM evolution remains elusive. Platycerium bifurcatum (elkhorn fern) provides an opportunity to study molecular changes underlying the transition from C(3) to CAM photosynthesis, because these two modes of photosynthesis occur in this species, with... http://dlvr.it/SlXvn4

[hyakkasan]

昨日と今日は久々に子株達の板付 wilinckii、elephant、bifurcatum系を板付 veitchii、hilliiも付けれるのあるから付けよ それにしてもくしゃみが止まらんっす P.hillii tt-1 mutant #ビカクシダ #コウモリラン #鹿角蕨 #麋角羊歯 #珍奇植物 #ビカクシダ普及委員会 #ビカクシダ好きと繋がりたい #植物好きな人と繋がりたい #植物のある暮らし #観葉植物 #platycerium #staghornfern #elkhornfern #bizarreplants #plants #green #plantstagram #plantsphotography #botanical #植物 #ferns (Kasugai, Aichi) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpkHQRQLSq-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[nagaino]

[ayamebird]

彼の家のコウモリラン

ぐんぐん成長して真ん中の貯水葉がきれい

[savannahs-succulent-garden]

This is my Staghorn Fern. She lives in a coconut.

[pnwplantpups]

Elkhorn fern

4.13.19

[jaggedroot]

So much beautiful foliage!

7.30.18

[stefano-bonalume]

Platycerium bifurcatum

[phytologikos]

Platycerium bifurcatum, otherwise and better-known as the Staghorn Fern, is an epiphytic fern; a type of fern that grows on walls and up trees near-parasitically. It's short rhizomes allow it to latch into the surface it grows upon, more for support than water collection. The middle "shield leaves" protect the plant and die, decomposing inwards to provide nutrients for the rest of the plant to use. The Staghorn Fern requires moist but well-drained soil (if you are to grow it in a hanging basket, as shown above), partial shade and a minimum temperature of 10°C. As a result it must be taken indoors over winter in most areas.